When building with tk and not gtk USE flag, no GUI is installed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: merge with tk USE flag only: * Found these USE flags for net-im/pidgin-2.14.8: U I - - dbus : Enable dbus support for anything that needs it (gpsd, gnomemeeting, etc) - - debug : Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces - - doc : Add extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc). It is recommended to enable per package instead of globally - - eds : Enable support for Evolution-Data-Server (EDS) - - gadu : Enable Gadu Gadu protocol support - - gnutls : Prefer net-libs/gnutls as SSL/TLS provider (ineffective with USE=-ssl) - - groupwise : Enable Novell Groupwise protocol support - - gstreamer : Enables voice and video sessions - - gtk : Builds Pidgin, the GTK+ interface - - idn : Enable support for Internationalized Domain Names - - meanwhile : Enable meanwhile support for Sametime protocol - - ncurses : Build finch, console interface - - networkmanager : Enable net-misc/networkmanager support - - nls : Add Native Language Support (using gettext - GNU locale utilities) - - perl : Add optional support/bindings for the Perl language - - pie : Build programs as Position Independent Executables (a security hardening technique) - - prediction : Enable Contact Availability Prediction plugin - - python : Build libgnt (GLib Ncurses Toolkit used by finch) with python scripting support - - python_single_target_python3_8 : Build for Python 3.8 only + + python_single_target_python3_9 : Build for Python 3.9 only - - sasl : Add support for the Simple Authentication and Security Layer - - spell : Add dictionary support - - tcl : Add support the Tcl language + + tk : Add support for Tk GUI toolkit - - xscreensaver : Use X screensaver protocol extension to monitor idle/active status based on mouse/keyboard events - - zephyr : Enable Zephyr protocol support - - zeroconf : Support for DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD) Actual Results: Emerge says >>> Running pre-merge checks for net-im/pidgin-2.14.8 * You did not pick the ncurses or gtk use flags, only libpurple * will be built. and no /usr/bin/pidgin is installed. Expected Results: Pidgin is installed with a Tk interface. 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I think that's intentional (although it should be USE=gui now, see https://projects.gentoo.org/qa/policy-guide/use-flags.html#pg0802). You already quoted the message: > * You did not pick the ncurses or gtk use flags, only libpurple > * will be built. Does Pidgin actually have Tk toolkit/interface/GUI support, or is it just bindings support or something?
> I think that's intentional (although it should be USE=gui now, see https://projects.gentoo.org/qa/policy-guide/use-flags.html#pg0802). There is no gui or X flag available for pidgin. > Does Pidgin actually have Tk toolkit/interface/GUI support, or is it just bindings support or something? All Tk can offer is a GUI, as far as I can tell. And it wasn't dropped by Pidgin, judging by the its configure file, which contains echo Build with Tk support......... : $enable_tk
(In reply to qsmodo from comment #2) > > I think that's intentional (although it should be USE=gui now, see https://projects.gentoo.org/qa/policy-guide/use-flags.html#pg0802). > > There is no gui or X flag available for pidgin. > I'm saying it should be changed to gui if Tk in Pidgin doesn't actually support a graphical interface. > > Does Pidgin actually have Tk toolkit/interface/GUI support, or is it just bindings support or something? > > All Tk can offer is a GUI, as far as I can tell. And it wasn't dropped by > Pidgin, judging by the its configure file, which contains > > echo Build with Tk support......... : $enable_tk I don't know if "Tk support" for Pidgin actually means "replace GTK". I don't think I've ever seen Pidgins Tk interface.
> I don't know if "Tk support" for Pidgin actually means "replace GTK". I don't think I've ever seen Pidgins Tk interface. I could only find relevant occurrences of Tk in libpurple/plugins/tcl. Must be related to plugins then, so I think you're right (even though there _is_ a tcl USE flag). The problem with USE flags is that it may be hard to decipher what they actually do...
I did a wee bit of testing on this. With USE="tk -tcl", nothing extra is built (iow, same result as USE="-tcl -tk"). With USE="tcl -tk", an extra tcl.so plugin is built which links to libtcl: $ lddtree pidgin-2.4.10-tcl/usr/lib64/purple-2/tcl.so tcl.so => pidgin-2.4.10-tcl/usr/lib64/purple-2/tcl.so (interpreter => none) libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 libpcre2-8.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libpcre2-8.so.0 libtcl8.6.so => /usr/lib64/libtcl8.6.so libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 $ With USE="tcl tk", an extra tcl.so plugin is built which links to both libtcl and libtk: $ lddtree pidgin-2.4.10-tcltk/usr/lib64/purple-2/tcl.so tcl.so => pidgin-2.4.10-tcltk/usr/lib64/purple-2/tcl.so (interpreter => none) libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 libpcre2-8.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libpcre2-8.so.0 libtcl8.6.so => /usr/lib64/libtcl8.6.so libz.so.1 => /lib64/libz.so.1 libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 libtk8.6.so => /usr/lib64/libtk8.6.so libXft.so.2 => /usr/lib64/libXft.so.2 libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libfreetype.so.6 libbz2.so.1 => /lib64/libbz2.so.1 libpng16.so.16 => /usr/lib64/libpng16.so.16 libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libXrender.so.1 libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libfontconfig.so.1 libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libexpat.so.1 libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6 libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libxcb.so.1 libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libXau.so.6 libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libXdmcp.so.6 libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 $ Now, what does this plugin do? Not sure yet. Does the one linked to libtcl+libtk do more than the one linked only to libtcl? Not sure yet.
I'm also not sure about the TK/TCL flags. My guess is that it is only for libpurle which supports multiple guis (not just pidgin). I'm working on the pidgin-2.14.13 version bump and would like to introduce the gui flag. But as so many plugins require pidgin to be built with the gtk useflag, I tend to leave both useflags for now and just put a REQUIRED_USE until the plugins are all moved to the "gui" requirement... gtk? ( gui ) gui? ( gtk ) And put a remark within the ebuild like this: # The new gui useflag depends on the gtk useflag, as most pidgin plugins depend # on the gtk flag. As soon as all plugins have been updated to use the new # gui flag, the gtk flag can get removed. I'll ignore the ncurses flag with the gui useflag, as that only provides /usr/bin/finch, which most probably is not what somebody wants from a gui. Is that ok for everybody?
